TY - JOUR
T1 - Sound Patterns of Syntax
T2 - Object Shift
AU - Erteschik-Shir, Nomi
N1 - Funding Information:
* I am grateful to Sofie Raviv, Lisa Rochman, and Idan Landau and especially to Tova Rapoport for their input and suggestions at various stages of the work on this paper. Thanks for their useful comments to the audience of the Glow workshop on Information structure in generative theory vs. pragmatics at Lund University in April 2003 and to the participants in the department of Linguistics, UCSD colloquium in August 2004. Special thanks go to Katalin É. Kiss. My research on the division of labor between Syntax and Phonology is supported by the Israel Science Foundation.
PY - 2005/1/1
Y1 - 2005/1/1
N2 - In this paper, I explore what a purely phonological account of object shift (OS) involves and what research questions it leads to, in particular what it means for word order to be phonologically motivated and what morpho-phonological primitives are involved. I pursue the possibility that what licenses OS of full DPs in Icelandic is phonological properties, not found in other Scandinavian languages, together with overt case marking. Although the position of the object is determined phonologically, the architecture I propose, in which topic and focus play a central role, allows for an account of the semantic effect associated with OS in Icelandic.
AB - In this paper, I explore what a purely phonological account of object shift (OS) involves and what research questions it leads to, in particular what it means for word order to be phonologically motivated and what morpho-phonological primitives are involved. I pursue the possibility that what licenses OS of full DPs in Icelandic is phonological properties, not found in other Scandinavian languages, together with overt case marking. Although the position of the object is determined phonologically, the architecture I propose, in which topic and focus play a central role, allows for an account of the semantic effect associated with OS in Icelandic.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/21644474333
U2 - 10.1515/thli.2005.31.1-2.47
DO - 10.1515/thli.2005.31.1-2.47
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:21644474333
SN - 0301-4428
VL - 31
SP - 47
EP - 93
JO - Theoretical Linguistics
JF - Theoretical Linguistics
IS - 1-2
ER -